Thomas More and his Utopia by Karl Kautsky(
Book
)
14
editions published
between
1959
and
1975
in
English and German
and held by
797
libraries
worldwide

Foundations of Christianity by Karl Kautsky(
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)
15
editions published
between
1925
and
2007
in
English and German
and held by
660
libraries
worldwide
Examinations of the historical foundations of Christianity by a communist

Foundations of Christianity; a study in Christian origins by Karl Kautsky(
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)
27
editions published
between
1925
and
2014
in
English and German
and held by
362
libraries
worldwide
First published in 1925, Karl Kautsky presents a Marxist history of Christianity and Christian society. Divided into four key sections, the book begins by considering the personality of Jesus as portrayed within Pagan and Christian sources and highlighting the Church's difficulty in presenting a unified and concurrent image of Jesus and interpretation of His words. Next, Kautsky analyses the structure of Roman society, with particular emphasis on the slave-holding system, the Roman State and the historiography of the period. In the third section, an early history of the Jewish people is pre

Terrorism and communism; a contribution to the natural history of revolution by Karl Kautsky(
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21
editions published
between
1920
and
2013
in
English and Italian
and held by
304
libraries
worldwide
First published in English in 1920, this work is a reissue of Karl Kautsky's seminal work dealing with the origins and history of the forces at work in revolutionary epochs, which offers pathbreaking insights on the development of civilisation. The opening chapters, dealing with eigthteenth century France, are of special interest to the student of the French revolution. The section devoted to the Commune of Paris offers a stimulating and provocative description of this famous govenment of the working class. The reissue of this controversial and extraordinary work will be welcomed by all those i

Karl Kautsky and the socialist revolution 1880-1938 by Massimo L Salvadori(
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2
editions published
between
1979
and
1982
in
German and English
and held by
2
libraries
worldwide
This first modern study provides an original and balanced perspective of a theorist whom Lenin referred to as both 'master of Marxism' and 'renegade'. Examining Kautsky's political thought over a period stretching from the Paris Commune to the Second World War, the author argues for the consistency with which Kautsky developed his positions on socialism, democracy, political parties and the role of the proletariat. While Salvadori's analysis is grounded in the debates within the Communist International and the German labour movement, Kautsky emerges as a distinctly modern thinker who produced a Marxist theory of the state, and originated critique of the USSR as a 'state capitalist' system. At this level, it provides a serious and measured exposition of the terms on which arguments for socialist strategy currently move